Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

Despite accounting for more than two-thirds of global HIV-1 infections, sub-Saharan Africa remains a research blind spot.

More than 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV-1, which continues to be a major global health challenge due to its ...

A positive effect that COVID-19 vaccines would have on the human body has been discovered. The technology used in these vaccines could also lead scientists to a cure for the human ...

A research team led by Professor Chu Hin (first right) and Professor Chen Zhiwei (first left) has discovered that inhibiting ...

A major bottleneck in curing HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is that the virus can hide in an inactive form within resting ...

HIV/AIDS remains a major public health threat worldwide, with an estimated 39.9 million people living with the disease at the ...